Energy
Negative prices, battery storage and cross-border flows push Serbia into a new power market cycle
Serbia’s electricity market entered a structurally different phase during CW21 as negative pricing, renewable volatility, cross-border balancing pressure and battery-storage expansion began reshaping how power is…
Serbia’s power market shifts into a volatility-and-carbon era as SEEPEX adopts negative prices
Serbia’s SEEPEX introduced negative electricity prices from 5 May 2026, a structural change that exposes oversupply and renewable intermittency in real time. The move arrives as…
Serbia and Azerbaijan push ahead with Niš gas power plant plans as grid needs tighten
Serbia and Azerbaijan are accelerating plans for a roughly 500 MW gas-fired power plant near Niš, with construction potentially starting as early as 2027. Analysts say…
CBAM, congestion and carbon power are redefining Serbia’s industrial energy economy
Serbia’s electricity market is no longer evolving only as an energy system. It is increasingly becoming part of a broader industrial and export restructuring process driven…
Serbia edges toward Hungary oil pipeline deal, boosting crude supply optionality
Serbia’s state pipeline operator Transnafta has proposed awarding a contract for a new Horgoš–Novi Sad oil pipeline to a consortium led by MVM Južna Bačka, valued…
Serbia’s coal plants rack up outages, underscoring reliability risk for a power system still built on lignite
Serbia’s coal-fired fleet logged 79 unplanned outages since the start of 2026, leaving up to 1,865 MW of capacity unavailable at times. The disruptions expose how…
Serbia’s renewable surge faces a storage reality check as negative prices spread
As Serbia’s wind and solar buildout accelerates, investors are increasingly concluding that battery storage is becoming necessary to protect project economics amid negative pricing and intraday…
CBAM starts to rewrite Serbia’s electricity export economics
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, effective from 1 January 2026, is changing how Serbian power competes in EU-linked markets by forcing traders to price embedded…
Hungary’s political shift could force Serbia to rethink how it gains access to Paks 2 power
Hungary’s incoming leadership says it will revisit the financing, economics and implementation conditions of the €12.5 billion Paks 2 project, adding uncertainty for Serbia’s long-discussed ambition…
Serbia’s grid is becoming the country’s most strategic industrial infrastructure
For years, Serbia’s economic strategy focused primarily on attracting factories, building highways and positioning the country as a competitive manufacturing base near the European Union. By 2026,…